our foreign policy, our national security and our democracy. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. pelosi: on this vote, the yays are 229, the nays are 198, present is 1, article 2 is adopted. reporter: it is official. president trump impeached. putting a bitterly divided america on display. virtually every democrat voting for impeachment. every republican voting against it. nadler: today we took action to hold president trump accountable for the serious and undisputed risk he poses to our free and fair elections and to the separation of powers that safeguards our liberty. pelosi: we passed the 2 articles of impeachment, the president is impeached. reporter: once the house speaker sends the articles of impeachment over to the senate, that sets in motion a trial-
they have nothing. they re the ones that should be impeached, every one of them. (crowd applauding) and we have tremendous support in the republican party, like we ve never had before. nobody s ever had this kind of support. (crowd applauding) but it s all gonna end soon, and it s gonna to come out to a beautiful great victory for the republican party and for this nation. (crowd applauding) crowd: four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! crowd: stop the lies! tell the truth. stop the lies! graham: this is not about protecting the country, this is about destroying the president. crowd: hey. ho, ho. donald trump has got to go.
thank you for organizing. black lives matter! man: black lives matter! woman: black lives! crowd: matter! woman: thank you so much. reporter: not only may this actually be the most important election in our lifetime, it certainly will be the most unusual. reporter: states across the country are turning to mail-in voting in this election in an effort to allow americans to vote safely during the pandemic. holt: while most americans support the option of mail-in balloting, president trump launched a new attack on it today as he trails joe biden in the polls. president trump: they re gonna be sending out 80 million ballots. where are they going? who are they sending them to? they re trying to rig this election. reporter: the president s failure to address the pandemic continues to hurt him in poll after poll. asked if he would accept the election results, the president said, i ll have to see. president trump: the only way we re gonna lose this election is if the election is rigged.
he said the president was a racist, a con-man and a cheat. and my reaction was, tell us something we don t know. (laughing) so, you know, i m basically looking at him like a renegade refugee from a organized crime family and he s gonna tell us sort of the internal dynamics of the trump operation. (people chattering) jamie raskin: the big story in my mind is that we have a president who has turned the government of the united states of america into a money-making operation for himself, for his family, for his business, and for his friends. and so, we wanna try to get the best, most fine-grained portrait we can of what s taking place within the trump operation. and then we ve got to start to ask the question about whether this is a president who is an actual threat to the character of our republic.
it s a totally phony argument. (car engine revving) goodbye, donnie well, goodbye, donnie it s so nice you ll soon be right where you belong writing memoirs, donnie behind bars, donnie reporter: about the jurisdictional issue about the constitutionality of trying a former president. the house managers are going to argue that yes, there is jurisdiction, and they re going to cite lots of constitutional scholarship, and the president s lawyers are going to say, no, there s no jurisdiction. let s listen. jamie raskin: my name is jamie raskin. because i have been a professor of constitutional law